Harvey Havoc

Rain, rain on my face
It hasn't stopped
Raining for days
My world is a flood
Slowly I become
One with the mud
--Jars of Clay

Harvey slammed into the Texas coast over the weekend as a Cat 4 Hurricane. Although declining winds quickly brought a downgrade to tropical storm status, Harvey has dropped a ton of rain. Some areas may realize four feet of rain before it is over.

Needless to say, flooding is widespread. Because the area is an epicenter to oil and gas, eyes are focusing on how related supply chains cope with disruption. In the map below, offshore dots are oil platforms, solid squares are terminals, open squares are refineries, and lines are major pipelines.

Many upstream facilities were shut in advance of the storm. Now nearby refineries are being taken offline. The generally lean nature of these supply chains exposes them to prolonged outages.

How prolonged the outage will be here remains to be seen.